Pyrula spirataBusycotypus spiratus Fulguropsis spirata, commonly known as pear whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Busyconidae, the busycon whelks.

It is an edible mollusc found in areas from the Caribbean to the Western Gulf of Mexico.

The species is generally not found East of the Mississippi Delta, and any Fulguropsis found Eastward from said delta are most likely of the species Fulguropsis pyruloides.

[2] As a result many records of F. pyruloides from the aforementioned regions are falsely labelled as F. spirata.

The shell is thin, usually with a long siphonal canal and a short, flattened spire.